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About this opportunity

Are you an experienced Implementation, Cutover or Release Lead who knows what it takes to successfully take a complex technology transformation through go-live?

- Day rate contract
- Sydney OR Melbourne based candidates
- initial 12 month contract

We're looking for an Implementation & Environment Lead to play a critical role in a major business transformation program enabled by Workday, creating an integrated HR, Payroll and Finance ecosystem. Sitting within Technology but working closely across the business, you'll bring together technology teams, business stakeholders and implementation partners to ensure go-live is carefully planned, governed and executed.

How do you exceed our expectations?





You'll take the lead on implementation and cutover planning, including:

- Developing and managing the end-to-end implementation and cutover plan
- Creating the detailed implementation run sheet, covering activities, owners, timings, dependencies and checkpoints
- Bringing together business, technology and vendor stakeholders to ensure everyone is ready for go-live
- Coordinating go/no-go readiness, governance approvals and implementation checkpoints
- Managing dependencies, risks, contingency and rollback planning
- Assessing the need for dress rehearsals and coordinating them where required
- Leading implementation command-centre activities during go-live
- Coordinating hypercare and transition into BAU
- Supporting future releases and applying lessons learned to continually improve the implementation approach

You'll also provide a coordinated view of the broader technology environments supporting the program, working across testing, integrations, platform teams and the System Integrator to manage environment readiness, connectivity, deployments, refreshes and dependencies To be successful in this role you will have the following skills and experience:





- Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprise implementations, cutovers or technology releases
- Strong experience coordinating go-live across business and technology teams
- Experience developing and managing detailed cutover or implementation run sheets
- A good understanding of release management, testing, environments, incident management and service transition
- Confidence navigating governance, readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate complex technical activities into clear business impacts
- Experience working across internal technology teams and external implementation partners
- Workday or other major HRIS implementation experience would be highly regarded
- Experience within financial services or another regulated industry would also be beneficial

The Aware Super difference At Aware Super, we believe that diversity of thought, background and experience creates better outcomes for our people, members and communities. Our people are focused on creating a diverse and dynamic environment that embraces and values differences and enables our team to bring their whole selves to work. We are proud to be consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality and our CEO, Deanne Stewart, is a Pay Equity Ambassador. Our members are at the heart of everything we do, and we CARE deeply, DELIVER honourably, and LEAD bravely.

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia and will be subject to police and bankruptcy checks.

📌 Implementation & Environment Lead, Workday Program (Sydney)
🏢 Aware Super
📍 Sydney